BURTON, MI – Elwood’s Restaurant and Pub is Burton is scheduled to close by the end of the week.

Lachelle Promenchenkel, a manager at the restaurant, 1076 S. Belsay Road, said Wednesday, Dec. 26 that employees were informed “just a couple days ago” that Elwood’s would permanently close at the end of business Saturday, Dec. 29.

Anyone with a gift card to restaurant must use it prior to the closure, Promenchenkel said. Ownership for the restaurant could not immediately be reached for comment on the decision.

The Burton site became Elwood’s Restaurant and Pub in March 2017 after previously housing Bubba O’Malley’s.

Bubba O’Malley’s opened in 1999 using the name TaMolly O’Malley’s Wild Irish Cantina but the ownership changed the name within one year’s time, according to MLive-The Flint Journal records.

A site plan has been submitted by Sterling Heights-based AEY Capital LLC. for a medical marijuana provisioning center to be constructed and opened inside the existing building.

AEY Capital was set to make a presentation at the Dec. 11 planning commission meeting on the plan, but it was called off just before the gathering.

“At this time, they want to do some more due diligence before they move forward with the actual application,” said Amber Abbey, the city’s superintendent of building, planning and zoning, of the group’s special use request.

The group has rescheduled for the 5 p.m. March 12, 2019 planning commission meeting.